Time for women golfers to stand up and speak out

It’s well known that Donald Trump has a strong golf game, but here are some other presidents who have had success on the links.USA TODAY Sports

Brittany Lincicome, lining up a putt during the first round of the U.S. Women’s Open on Thursday, has been criticized on Twitter and elsewhere for saying President Trump should not attend the tournament this week.(Photo: Kyle Terada, USA TODAY Sports)

BEDMINSTER, N.J. — One after another, the confident, extremely successful women came in for their news media interviews earlier this week at the 2017 U.S. Women’s Open. Multi-millionaire athletes all, they exhibit such a fearlessness in their professional lives that you figure you could ask them anything and they wouldn’t flinch.

But bring up their controversial host here this week, President Donald Trump, and everything changes. They become reluctant, if not downright afraid — every single one of them. Their answers are so similar, it’s as if they were planned out in advance. Suffice it to say they’re just here to talk about golf.

Michelle Wie, 27, the most famous player in the tournament, illustrated the point as well as anyone when she was asked about Trump’s…